High Presence Networking
A bridge form for extending dojo training into real communities — where energy, dialogue, and collaboration are alive. High Presence Networking turns social ...
Intention
High Presence Networking is the practice of bringing your embodied awareness into real communities — places where energy, dialogue, and collaboration are alive. It’s how we extend dojo training into the social field.
The purpose isn’t to “network” in the conventional sense, but to connect through coherence. To listen deeply. To contribute presence instead of performance. And to practice resonance in motion — where ideas, people, and systems meet.
This form supports integrating your training into authentic, high-contact communities — professional, creative, contemplative, or technical — where your energy can be tested, refined, and expanded through real participation.
Experience
Choose a community that matters to you — one that challenges and expands you, not just one that mirrors you. It should be a living field, not a content feed.
Here are a few examples of high-presence communities:
- Zen Leadership: Off the Cushion — where embodiment and leadership intersect in practice.
- Chosei Zen — a community devoted to integrating Zen, science, and leadership.
- Japanese Culture Center / Tenshinkan Dojo — physical and spiritual training in the art of Aikido.
- InnerSource Commons Foundation — an open source community cultivating collaboration within organizations.
- Fearless Change — a global pattern language community focused on culture, change, and human connection.
- Cloud Security Office Hours — where technology and humanity meet through inquiry and shared intelligence.
Enter these spaces as training environments. Notice your energy as you participate — where you contract, where you flow, where you overgive or withdraw. Practice relaxing completely, centering with intention, meeting fear with presence, and allowing playful resonance to guide your interactions.
This is the fieldwork of dojo presence — where awareness meets community in real time.
Implementation
Steps
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Choose with Intention
Pick a community that aligns with your growth edge—professional, creative, or contemplative—and commit to showing up regularly for a while. -
Enter as a Practice
Before joining a session or discussion, take One Breath to center. Let go of the need to perform or impress. Arrive to listen and blend. - Engage through Resonance
Relax completly, center with intention, and …- Notice when you’re reacting or rehearsing.
- Redirect attention to the field and its shared rhythm.
- Contribute with clarity, curiosity, and care.
- Reflect Afterwards
Commit the following to internalize and align learning:- Pause for a short Stillness Contemplation.
- Ask:
- What energy did I bring?
- What energy did I receive?
- Capture insights for your next Authorship Circle or Mat session.
- Return and Refine
Each encounter is an opportunity to test your training under real social pressure. The more you bring presence into the field, the more the field reflects coherence back to you.
